EHS Manager

About the role

The Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) Manager serves in a leadership role in the implementation, support, and oversight of Chemtrade Responsible Care EHS policies, procedures, standards, guidelines and practices at Chemtrade facilities located in their assigned locations.

Responsibilities

• Interfaces with site personnel to identify hazards, and to develop and implement corrective/improvement measures.
  • This could include the review and approval of specific work permits, as well as participation in incident investigation teams, safety audits, design reviews, process safety reviews, project review teams, and/or job task analysis.
• Cookbook the implementation of Chemtrade Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS) and Responsible Care policies, procedures, standards, guidelines and practices at Chemtrade facilities in their assigned location(s).
  • This includes, but is not limited to, maintaining site management systems, Incident Management Database, Action Item Database and EHS Compliance Calendar including routine reporting, audits and permit renewals.
• Promote proactive safety participation by all employees and ensure injuries, illnesses, incidents, near misses, and unsafe conditions are reported and investigated.
• Provide leadership to develop, implement and maintain environmental, health and safety programs and policies to meet or exceed compliance with National, Provincial, and local regulations, internal policies and customer requirements including environmental, safety, transportation, security, Responsible Care Codes and RC 14001 requirements.
• Support the industrial hygiene program through air and noise monitoring and exposure assessments and prepare reports.
• Participate in Quality Assurance and supporting continual improvement under the ISO 9000 and RC14001 process.
• Provide technical support, guidance and maintain all documentation essential to efficient operations of the EHS program.
• Maintain interactions with regulatory authorities, insurance carriers or EHS consultants on issues impacting manufacturing operations.
• Ensure environmental permits and reporting are up to date. Ensure permit requirements are adhered to.
• Provide coaching, employee development, performance management, and training of assigned EHS department staff.
• Provide appropriate level of direction and conduct performance reviews.
• Perform other tasks as assigned by the EHS Resource Team Director and site manager to support Chemtrade EHS programs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in environmental engineering or science, occupational health or safety, industrial hygiene, or another relevant field preferred but not required.
• Minimum 7 years of related safety management, environmental and/or supervisory responsibility preferably in chemical manufacturing or related environments.
• Advanced knowledge of EHS regulations, management systems, regulatory agencies, trends and resources.
• Excellent verbal and written communications skills.
• Must be able to effectively communicate with all levels of the organization.
• High proficiency in Microsoft Office Software (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Access) and extensive Internet search capabilities.
• Strong interpersonal and leadership skills.
• Ability to build consensus and influence others.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills are essential.
• Exceptional organization and presentation skills.
• Ability to handle multiple projects and meet deadlines.
• Willingness to travel (30-50%) up to a full week stay for support visits to manufacturing sites, attendance at professional development seminars or training, or other travel as required.

Desirable Skills

• Professional and/or industry certifications in environmental, safety, or industrial hygiene.
• Certified Safety Professional, Certified Industrial Hygienist, Certified Hazardous Materials Manager, etc.
• Training or knowledge of Hazardous material response (40 hr. Haz-Mat Technician level) and confined space rescue.
• Experience with implementation of Process Safety Management (PSM) programs.
• Ability to conduct Process Hazard Analysis using HAZOP or equivalent method.
• Knowledge of Responsible Care, Responsible Care Codes or other EHS Management Systems.
• Familiarity with ANSI, API, NFPA and other recognized industry standards.
• Knowledge of databases and ability to use databases for trending.
• Knowledge of workers' compensation requirements.
• First Aid / CPR Certification.
• Ability to adapt to changing list of priorities based on needs of the company, regulatory compliance, and management of risk.